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5. As the days grow shorter, birds begin to warmer regions for the winter.

(1) migrating
(2) distorting
(3) perspiring
(4) embroidering

6. Luis María Drago was an Argentine who served as a member of the Permanent

Court of Arbitration at The Hague.

(1) edict
(2) jurist
(3) facet
(4) asset

7. The United Nations was established in 1945 primarily to deal with and conflicts

between states, as well as with other threats to world peace.

(1) wages
(2) disputes
(3) trends
(4) qualities

8. In 1925 the Geneva Convention prohibited biological warfare; , many nations have

continued to develop biological weapons.

(1) nevertheless
(2) furthermore
(3) therefore
(4) otherwise

Restatements (Questions 9-12)

This part consists of several sentences, each followed by four possible ways of restating the
main idea of that sentence in different words. For each question, choose the one restatement
which best expresses the meaning of the original sentence.

9. Doctors' fears that physical activity might exacerbate patients' back pain and impede

recovery from back injury have proven to be unfounded.

(1) Doctors have found that patients may actually recover from back pain and injury
more quickly if they engage in physical activity.

(2) Although excessive physical activity may cause back injury, moderate amounts of
exercise help to prevent back pain, according to doctors.

(3) Physical activity does not worsen back pain or delay a patient's recovery from back
injury, as doctors once thought.

(4) People recovering from back pain often fear that physical activity will cause injury,
but doctors say that this is not the case.

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